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Mashhad International Airport
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Mashhad International Airport or Shahid Hashemi Nejad Airport is located in Mashhad, Khorasan, Iran.
It has frequent flights to several cities within Iran and also international flights mostly to the Central Asia and the Middle East.
The Airport is currently under an expansion project. By March 2008 it will have 20000 square meters of passenger terminal building, 18 or 19 aircraft parking positions, 2 or 3 more taxiways and 40000 square meters of car parking space added.
Airlines
Domestic
Aria Air (Tehran-Mehrabad)
Caspian Airlines (Tehran-Mehrabad)
Eram Air (Tabriz)
Iran Air
Iran Air Tours
Iran Aseman Airlines
Kish Air
Mahan Airlines
Saha Airlines (Tehran-Mehrabad)
Taban Airlines
Fars Qeshm Air (Tehran-Mehrabad)
International
Bahrain Air (Bahrain)
Caspian Airlines (Damascus)
Emirates Airline (Dubai) [begins late 2009]
Galaxy Air (Bishkek)
Gulf Air (Bahrain)
Iran Air
Iran Air Tours (Dubai)
Iran Aseman Airlines
Jazeera Airways
Kam Air (Kabul)
Kish Air (Damascus)
Qatar Airways (Doha)
Saudi Arabian Airlines (Dammam) (Seasonal only)
Taban Airlines
Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Ataturk) (starts in 2008)
Accidents and incidents
On September 1, 2006, an Iran Air Tours Tu-154 skidded off the runway as it was landing in Mashhad International Airport and caught fire. A tire had blown on the aircraft during landing. The aircraft was carrying 147 passengers, 29 of them died in the accident. The Tu-154 was flying from Bandar Abbas to Mashhad.
See also
Tehran's International Airport
Mashhad
Khorasan
Iran
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